Previously unreleased! Dave Edwards dictaphone cassette recordings 2004, for spoken word and improvised guitar - a trip down a road not taken for New Zealand music. These tracks were primitively recorded, not just obscure but completely unheard by anyone else, and seemed like raw unfinished demos at the time - but in hindsight may be … Continue reading Articulation Incommunicate (2004)
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The Electricka Zoo – new tracks, late 2019
Here's a pair of new (late 2019) tracks from The Electricka Zoo https://soundcloud.com/darrel-hannon/digi-and-dave-black Keyboards & electronica by the Digitator & Dave Black on electric guitar in Upper Hutt, New Zealand, November 2019 https://soundcloud.com/darrel-hannon/jamming-with-dave Get our album if you haven't already!
in the non-idiomatic idiom in Norway (part 2, 2014)
A few years ago I wrote a chapter of Jazz Aotearoa, a book about New Zealand jazz music history, discussing the free improvisation and avant-garde jazz scene in Wellington at the turn of the millennium. in the non-idiomatic idiom in Norway is a collection of improvised instrumental music with some of the musicians in that … Continue reading in the non-idiomatic idiom in Norway (part 2, 2014)
logistical torrents
31 July 2019 https://youtu.be/LPRYDfrxkr0 electric guitar and video by Dave Black, Featherston, NZ. One in a series of quickfire improvisations with video effects. Rather than finish an album before releasing anything in 2019, I'm opening a curtain on some of my demo ideas in progress.
11 through the viewer 7
11th July 2019 https://youtu.be/oi-nq7lcF8o Improvised acoustic guitar and video effects by Dave Black, Featherston, NZ. A followup to Solstice Shards 19, another home recording - dialling back the electronic sound effects, but keeping some dynamic filters on the visuals. The consumer-level technology that's available nowadays lets me (or anyone) put together this sort of thing … Continue reading 11 through the viewer 7
Other Islands: 2012-2018
fiffdimension vol3 (see also Gleefully Unknown: 1997-2005 and Fame & Oblivion: 2005-2012) brings us into the current decade - with further wide-ranging experimentation and exploration sonically, temporally and geographically, in New Zealand, Western Australia, Indonesia, Okinawa (Japan), and Fiji. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTMQw7roXH0&list=PLtbrBpNjlOHOfvink1dJANU_UFOs6My4Y by Dave Black (acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, harmonica, laptop, bass, tenor saxophone, field recordings, piano, ukulele, sanshin, saron, … Continue reading Other Islands: 2012-2018
Ascension Band 2005
https://youtu.be/q9tH0oiOmPc "With elements of punk, post-punk, jazz, classical, straight rock, opera and music hall, the Ascension Band are that rare thing: Something Wholly Other. They retain avant garde cred and still manage to rock harder than AC/DC.” - http://www.varsity.co.nz This riff by organist/conductor/arranger Nigel Patterson (The Black Seeds, The Manta Rays, Fly My Pretties), guitarist … Continue reading Ascension Band 2005
The Winter: Exit Points
Today is the last day of winter in the southern hemisphere - so to celebrate, here's the fifth album from The Winter - a New Zealand free improvisation trio of Mike Kingston, Simon Sweetman and Dave Edwards… with a sound that swerves from acoustic folk/blues with hints of Asian, Celtic, and Balkan influences, to electroacoustic … Continue reading The Winter: Exit Points
The Winter at Pyramid Club, 2015
Thanks to Brent for the photos and to everyone who came along to the Pyramid Club on Thursday! The Winter's new album 'Exit Points' is now available! First formed on winter solstice day 2003 in Wellington, The Winter is an improvised music trio of Mike Kingston, Simon Sweetman and Dave Edwards... with a sound that … Continue reading The Winter at Pyramid Club, 2015
in the non-idiomatic idiom in Norway (part 1, 1999)
A few years ago I wrote a chapter of Jazz Aotearoa, a book about New Zealand jazz music history, discussing the free improvisation and avant-garde jazz scene in Wellington at the turn of the millennium. in the non-idiomatic idiom in Norway is a collection of improvised instrumental music with some of the musicians in that … Continue reading in the non-idiomatic idiom in Norway (part 1, 1999)
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